shows the two hugging, holding hands, and lounging side by side in the pool<\/a>.<\/p>\nPage Six says that a source close to Russini says she was staying at the hotel during a hiking trip with two friends, while a friend of Vrabel said he and the Patriots coach drove to Sedona for the day before driving back to their hotel after spending time with Russini\u2019s friend group (Vrabel was at an Arizona State scouting event in Tempe on Friday, March 27). Three other sources told Page Six that they did not see anyone with Russini and Vrabel, and none of the photos provided to the New York Post celebrity gossip arm show anyone else with the two.<\/p>\n
Vrabel, 50, and Russini, 43, both of whom are married, have a working relationship that dates back to Russini\u2019s time with ESPN as the Tennessee Titans beat reporter, when Vrabel became that team\u2019s head coach in 2018. However, Page Six\u2019s speculative report and photos seem to insinuate a deeper relationship.<\/p>\n
Russini denied those insinuations, telling Page Six that \u201cthe photos don\u2019t represent the group of six people who were hanging out during the day. Like most journalists in the NFL, reporters interact with sources away from stadiums and other venues.\u201d<\/p>\n
Steven Ginsberg, executive editor of The Athletic, also offered a comment to Page Six.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese photos are misleading and lack essential context,\u201d he said. \u201cThese were public interactions in front of many people. Dianna is a premier journalist covering the NFL, and we\u2019re proud to have her at the Athletic.\u201d<\/p>\n
Vrabel also told Page Six that \u201cthese photos show a completely innocent interaction and any suggestion otherwise is laughable. This doesn\u2019t deserve any further response.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Tuesday, Page Six shared a series of photographs showing New England Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[94756,8225,349,251733,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-571157","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-dianna-russini","9":"tag-mike-vrabel","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-page-six","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}